OT noisy f****ing bird

I live in a very quiet place, quiet enough that nearly everyone that
visits comments on that fact, quiet enough that each year I have to
adjust to the noise in National Forest campgrounds before I can sleep
at night.

A couple months ago I started to notice a dove calling at regular
intervals. It caught my attention partly because it was a three note
call different from the one I associate with Mourning Doves. Since
then this guy has decided he likes it here and calls virtually non-
stop .... he's driving me nuts ( yeah, yeah, short drive :-). He
has taken to landing in the yard and (apparently ) eating Pomegranate
seeds under our tree, so I've had the chance to get a good look.

Turns out he is a Eurasian Collared Dove ... an invasive species.
(from Wikipedia " The song is a coo-COO-coo, repeated many times."
make that endlessly ) A second one showed up and I hoped that would
limit the love sick calling. It has,some, but not a lot. If
they would just shut up, I'd forget about them,

but,

Anyone got any fly recipes for dove feathers ? G

"Larry L" wrote


Anyone got any fly recipes for dove feathers ? G

no, but dove breasts seared in a mustard/soy mix can be really good.

yfitons
wayno

On Apr 14, 11:40*am, "Wayne Harrison" wrote:
"Larry L" wrote



Anyone got any fly recipes for dove feathers ? G

no, but dove breasts seared in a mustard/soy mix can be really good.

yfitons
wayno

See? What did I say about bird sex?
Maybe preped with Thai Green curry paste?

Dave

On Apr 14, 2:34*pm, DaveS wrote:


See? What did I say about bird sex?
Maybe preped with Thai Green curry paste?

Dave


Just so happens I was looking at a jar of Thai Green Curry Sauce in
Trader Joe's yesterday, wondering what I might use it for if I bought
it.

On Apr 14, 3:10*pm, Larry L wrote:
On Apr 14, 2:34*pm, DaveS wrote:



See? What did I say about bird sex?
Maybe preped with Thai Green curry paste?

Dave

Just so happens I was looking at a jar of Thai Green Curry Sauce in
Trader Joe's yesterday, wondering what I might use it for if I bought
it.

Start with a simple chicken breast saute. The paste should be diluted,
and poured on late in the saute. Perhaps the TJ sause is already
diluted. In any case, go slow, heat a bit of the sauce, etc to get the
taste and concentration wired in. It is great stuff. I use it with
halibut etc. but I suspect it would make even Tilapia taste wunderbar.
Burgers? Tell folks its "Asian fusion." Serve with beer or
Gevertztraimener(sp?). G is the default wine for "ethnic," its a
bargain and the US PNW produces lots of high quality G for less than
$6 a fifth.

Dave

On Apr 14, 5:32*pm, DaveS wrote:
On Apr 14, 3:10*pm, Larry L wrote:

On Apr 14, 2:34*pm, DaveS wrote:

See? What did I say about bird sex?
Maybe preped with Thai Green curry paste?

Dave

Just so happens I was looking at a jar of Thai Green Curry Sauce in
Trader Joe's yesterday, wondering what I might use it for if I bought
it.

Start with a simple chicken breast saute. The paste should be diluted,
and poured on late in the saute. Perhaps the TJ sause is already
diluted. In any case, go slow, heat a bit of the sauce, etc to get the
taste and concentration wired in. It is great stuff. I use it with
halibut etc. but I suspect it would make even Tilapia taste wunderbar.
Burgers? Tell folks its "Asian fusion." Serve with beer or
Gevertztraimener(sp?). G is the default wine for "ethnic," its a
bargain and the US PNW produces lots of high quality G for less than
$6 a fifth.

Dave

Gewurztraminer.
Even I like it and I hate wine.
Frank Reid

I saw my first ever dove in Stanley, ID this afternoon -- probably a
lost migrant. We're crazy with birds this time of year as they migrate
through to their northern breeding grounds. So far today: Oregon juncos,
rufus sided towhees, flickers, robins, Canada geese, a sandhill crane,
an osprey, a Swainson's hawk, two golden eagles (yesterday), and
miscellaneous trash birds like starlings, which are actually quite
beautiful seen close up outside my bedroom window under the feeder --
iridescent plumage.

The most irritating birds I've encountered are the barn owls that nest
in the palm trees across the street from my house in California. They
don't call them screech owls for nothing. Screetch, screetch, screetch,
continuously, even through the night. When their young fledge birders
from all around northern California show up to watch them leave the nest.

We're coming out of winter and the place is coming alive. I went crust
skiing this morning, just outside of town. The 1/2 inch of fresh snow
was cris-crossed with fox prints, punctuated by holes in the snow where
they'd dug up mice.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On Apr 14, 5:13*pm, rw wrote:
I saw my first ever dove in Stanley, ID this afternoon -- probably a
lost migrant. We're crazy with birds this time of year as they migrate
through to their northern breeding grounds. So far today: Oregon juncos,
rufus sided towhees, flickers, robins, Canada geese, a sandhill crane,
an osprey, a Swainson's hawk, two golden eagles (yesterday), and
miscellaneous trash birds like starlings, which are actually quite
beautiful seen close up outside my bedroom window under the feeder --
iridescent plumage.

The most irritating birds I've encountered are the barn owls that nest
in the palm trees across the street from my house in California. They
don't call them screech owls for nothing. Screetch, screetch, screetch,
continuously, even through the night. When their young fledge birders
from all around northern California show up to watch them leave the nest.

We're coming out of winter and the place is coming alive. I went crust
skiing this morning, just outside of town. The 1/2 inch of fresh snow
was cris-crossed with fox prints, punctuated by holes in the snow where
they'd dug up mice.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Is that Sandhill normal in Stanley?
Dave

"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
communications...

"Larry L" wrote


Anyone got any fly recipes for dove feathers ? G

no, but dove breasts seared in a mustard/soy mix can be really good.

yfitons
wayno



When my wife was pregnant with our first. An F'n Mocking bird was in heat
and spend 2/3 the night perched under the street light across the court
making mocking bird sounds. She was almost ready for me to get the shotgun
out.

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:32:40 -0700 (PDT), DaveS wrote:

On Apr 14, 5:13*pm, rw wrote:
I saw my first ever dove in Stanley, ID this afternoon -- probably a
lost migrant. We're crazy with birds this time of year as they migrate
through to their northern breeding grounds. So far today: Oregon juncos,
rufus sided towhees, flickers, robins, Canada geese, a sandhill crane,
an osprey, a Swainson's hawk, two golden eagles (yesterday), and
miscellaneous trash birds like starlings, which are actually quite
beautiful seen close up outside my bedroom window under the feeder --
iridescent plumage.

The most irritating birds I've encountered are the barn owls that nest
in the palm trees across the street from my house in California. They
don't call them screech owls for nothing. Screetch, screetch, screetch,
continuously, even through the night. When their young fledge birders
from all around northern California show up to watch them leave the nest.

We're coming out of winter and the place is coming alive. I went crust
skiing this morning, just outside of town. The 1/2 inch of fresh snow
was cris-crossed with fox prints, punctuated by holes in the snow where
they'd dug up mice.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Is that Sandhill normal in Stanley?

No. Like most things, it turns metrosexual and thinks its Hemingway the second
it hits the city limits...

HTH,
R

Dave